"Then the law can shut these companies down."

I don't mean to diminish Joseph Gordon-Levitt's perspective; insomuch as I think so-called A"I" (and the related companies) is awful.

However: the DOJ began prosecuting AT&T as a monopoly in 1974, AT&T settled: in 1982 and underwent the so-called "divestiture" (breaking up into RBOCs [Region Bell Operating Carriers]) and in the ensuing decades, it has reformed like the radioactive slime mold in comic of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (many, having only watched the animated film, perhaps are unaware of the villainous slime mold in the manga which Miyazaki continued laboring over for another dozen years after the film production had concluded).

Similarly, Alphabet Inc. (aka Google, YouTube, etc.) has been convicted as a monopoly since in 2024.

At least in my experience I really wonder, when Joseph Gordon-Levitt, imagines that "the law" can shut companies down, upon what evidence is he basing that?

I also sometimes see or hear the popular myth that companies can somehow be "nationalized" as in: for all the corruption and deaths caused by PG&E for example, somehow, they could become a municipal service. I have absolutely no idea where people get these ideas.

At least as far as I have ever observed things in the USA: it is a functioning oligopoly. Money and power, corruption, bribery (they call this "lobbying") all seem to be the prevailing tactics. RCA, driving Edwin Armstrong (inventor of FM radio) to suicide by bribing the FCC to outlaw FM radio, then settling with his widow after the patents expired to only start selling their own FM radios afterwards, seems to be the norm.

When "the law" sides with those who are being exploited? In the USA? Where the police forces in the 21st century, fundamentally, display the same sorts of badges that plantation slave patrols did in the 1800s? (e.g. ), where the 13th Amendment, never outlawed slavery, it merely made it conditional insomuch as those "duly convicted" are potentially forced into carceral slavery?

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, seems to imagine, that "the law" is going to do anything to thwart the A"I" bullshit? If anything, from my vantage, it seems far more plausible that unless there are revolutionary reforms made, in the USA, "the law" is much more likely to facilitate A"I" committing many more abuses.

So, unfortunately, it does seem to "add up" alas, for those such as I and presumably you and maybe also Joseph Gordon-Levitt, given that we are not rich and powerful and we care about decency and rights? The deck is stacked against the likes of us.